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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsSeriously, Why is ZZTop in the Rock & Roll hall of fame
Sure they had some fun songs back in the 80s but nothing that was so memorable they needed to enshrine them into the Hall of Fame.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)they had some EXCELLENT shit back in the 70s. the 80s sucked in general.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Seriously
Kali
(55,019 posts)but I loves me some old zz top tunes.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)and I'd still support ZZ Top for RnR HoF.
That doesn't mean there aren't a ton of worthy bands not in there but I see no problem with ZZ being in. Their 70s electric blues stuff is straight up Rock.
Maybe it's a growing up in Texas thing.
I know a gal she lives on the hill....
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)So why isn't George in there?
pscot
(21,024 posts)LynneSin
(95,337 posts)thank you very much!
bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)First let me say that I love me some Thorogood (we even have a couple of his tunes in our setlist). However, George's music is pretty one dimensional, not that that is necessarily bad, as he's very good at what he does, but he has nowhere near the range that ZZ Top does.
Here's a couple of tunes that show Top's range IMO.
dropkickpa
(4,866 posts)I spent the first 11 years of my life in tx, I still love ZZ Top.
keroro gunsou
(2,223 posts)but her sister will?
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)I've heard there will be some sort of processed meat tube involved...
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Throd
(7,208 posts)Won't be everyone's cup of tea, but I dig their mutant, mescaline- and tequila-fueled blues rock. I also liked their eighties stuff, and won't begrudge them their massive success, but it's the old stuff that's most memorable.
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)oddly omits the 80s...
Tres Hombres (1973)
Fandango (1975)
Tejas (1976)
Deguello (1979)
Greatest Hits (1992)
Loved their stuff but they became a little too glitzy/pop in the 80s.
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)bluedigger
(17,087 posts)Amerigo Vespucci
(30,885 posts)The irony is that most of their more recent albums are a return to their more organic roots, but they still get viewed for SHIT like "Sleeping Bag."
They deserve to be in the R&R Hall of Fame for the same reason that bands like The Allman Brothers deserve it...in their early days they were a blues-based, American music band that stuck close to their roots.
Here's a song from the second album, "Rio Grande Mud" (1972) that is ALSO one of their BEST songs. It was never a "hit" like "La Grange," but I'd "enshrine" any band that produced music like this in a heartbeat.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)my first exposure to them was their 80's videos and I found them extremely annoying, but I liked them when I heard their older stuff.
Amerigo Vespucci
(30,885 posts)...The "Legs" video, played to death on MTV along with "Sharp Dressed Man" and the rest, featured Playboy Playmates
Jeana Tomasino
and
Kymberly Herrin
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Bigleaf
(2,050 posts)enshrined already who do not deserve to be there and just as many who have been snubbed. Jan Werner and his cronies at the RRHOF can kiss my ass.
HelenaHandbasket
(51 posts)Last edited Wed Jul 25, 2012, 04:35 PM - Edit history (1)
Velcro Fly!!!!???? That's my jam!
bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)Love your screen name BTW.
HelenaHandbasket
(51 posts)Last edited Wed Jul 25, 2012, 11:19 PM - Edit history (1)
I thought for sure that name would be taken and it wasn't....yay!!!!! LOL
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)but you did but you did
and she thaaaaaanks you...
bluesbassman
(19,379 posts)nolabear
(41,991 posts)HelenaHandbasket
(51 posts)I'm excited to be here!
DryHump
(199 posts)...very, very stoned. Could not remember most of the concert until the next night, when I got stoned again. Great show, by the way - they shared a ticket with Alice Cooper!!!.
OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)These groups/performers are not in.
ZZ Top is.
Go figure?
Chan790
(20,176 posts)Heart: Yes.
Kiss: No. Of all the "no" I can think of, this is the one I'd relent on, based solely on their popularity.
Rush: If Rush is ever seriously considered they should disband the Hall instead.
Yes: No.
Little Feat: Maybe.
Deep Purple: Yes.
SRV: Um, yes. I didn't know he wasn't in and I'm kind of put-off by his omission.
OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)KISS: Setting aside whether their music is any good, and also setting aside that Gene Simmons has been obnnoxious about the whole HoF issue, KISS belongs. They have a respectable 20 million in certified album sales, and they absolutely dominated pop culture from 1975-1979. They redefined the concert experience, and are among the most recognizable acts in rock music.
Rush: Rush and ZZ Top have something in common besides both names being drug culture references. Both have 25 million in certified album sales. What they don't have in common is that ZZ top has 2 "top 100" albums (Eliminator and Afterburner). Rush has none in the top 100. Just for comparison's sake, Heart has one album in the top 100; KISS has none; inductees Led Zeppelin have 8.
Little Feat: I think the induction of Little Feat would be more based on the company they kept and influenced, rather than album sales. Little Feat helped kick start the careers of inductee Bonnie Raitt, as well as Linda Ronstadt (not an inductee, but she should be). Members of Little Feat have played as individuals in the studio and on tour with other groups: Sam Clayton has appeared many times with Jimmy Buffett, and Bill Payne has toured and done studio work with inductee Bob Seger (most notably - he played the piano solo on "Against the Wind" . Their unique music continues to influence many country and rock artists, as evidenced by the "Join the Band" album http://www.littlefeat.net/index.php?page=joinband.
Sales figure source: http://www.riaa.org/goldandplatinum.php?content_selector=top-selling-artists
About Stevie Ray Vaughan:
R&R Hof inductee John Lee Hooker
R&R Hof inductee Mick Jagger
Multiple R & R HoF Inductee Eric Clapton:
R&R Hof inductee David Bowie
The second time was at a Double Trouble gig in 1990. With bright, shiny eyes, a huge warm grin and hug, he brought me back into his dressing room. Sure enough, times had changed and he related to me with passion how bad things had gotten and how good they were now. Happiness, hope, and fulfillment filled his face. Right there I knew he had become as tall as the thoughts in the book of which he had spoken those many years before. Stevie had one thing going that eludes so many. He had grown into the man he knew he always was.
R & R HoF Inductee Buddy Guy
More at: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Stevie_Ray_Vaughan
I'd also note that R & R HoF inductees Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Wonder, and Jackson Browne led the crowd in singing "Amazing Grace" at Vaughan's funeral.
..so if a man is judged by the company he keeps, Stevie Ray Vaughan belongs in the HoF. He belongs in yesterday.The powers that be in Cleveland should stop whatever the Hell it is they are doing and induct him right now.
By the way, here is the inductee list: http://rockhall.com/inductees/alphabetical/V/
I apologize to all if this rant constitutes threadjacking.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Not even counting all the times I heard him in clubs all over Austin.
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)ZZ Top dwarfed the success of the aforementioned.
Tobin S.
(10,418 posts)Just Got Paid
Jesus Just Left Chicago
La Grange
nolabear
(41,991 posts)Those would have been my picks, sho' nuff.
trixie
(867 posts)I don't wear them caus my wallets fat......
DAMN YOU! now stuck in my head.
Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)That said ZZ Top was one of the best bands of the 70's. They should have called it quits though when they went synth. And also re-recording all of the drumming for the Tejas CD release was a big mistake.
lame54
(35,321 posts)WillParkinson
(16,862 posts)And they were fun. Good enough reason for me.
rppper
(2,952 posts)One of my favorite ZZ Top songs
auburngrad82
(5,029 posts)Steve Miller really deserves to be in the HOF way ahead of ZZTop.
The best ZZTop album was Deguello. Anything else is just fluff.